1) modernism is the period where music,cinema and visual

art involved in the first decades of the 20th century, the

modernism expressed the desire break with the past and
gave shape to the modern consciouness.
2)The 20th century is called the age of Anxiety. It was
marked by the two world wars. New and faster means of
transport and communication were discovered and
psychology assumed a scientific status.
the First World War left the country in a disillusioned
mood: stability and prosperity belonged only to the
privileged classes.
In this period, new views of man and the universe
emerged.
3) Freud with the power of the unconscious to influence
behavior: man's action can be motivated by the force of
which the individual knows little, the effect in family life a
new way of seeing the relationship in the family and new
methods of investigation of dream analysis.
albert einstein with the theory of relativity in which concept
space and time, effect in art is rejection of realistic
rapresentation.
Bergson distinction the historical time and psycological
time. the historical time is external, linear and measured in
terms of the spactial distance.
4) the Georgian poets are placed before the first war, these
poets felt sympathy for specifically english elements such
as countryside, they remained indifferent or were openly
hostile to the revolution by symbolist.
the war poets wrote the horror of modern warface with
anti-rhetorical way.
symbolism is a movement started in france, the poets was
marked by: the use of free verse
the use of language and images
the possibility for the readers to attribute their own
meaning to the poem
the poets became the explorer of experience and used
language to create rich patterns of meaning.
5) stream of consciousness is a narrative technique in
which poets define a continuous stream of thoughts and
feelings that characterize, the human mind.
the interior monologue to be divided into two parts,
indirect and direct
Interior monologue: in the indirect monologue the
character
in the direct monologue the narraction take place inside
the mind of main character.
6) Brooke's poem soldier contains the memoirs of a British
soldier who periodically declares that his sacrifice will
convert the burial site into English territory.
The work consists of fourteen lines in the form of the
Petrarchian sonnet. using the meter in the first 8 verses
those of Shakespare and in the last those of Petrarch
7) the poem dulce et decoro est speaks of the horror of
war in the trenches as the gas that kills people because it
does not put the gas mask in time.
this poem is an attempt to communicate the "mercy of
war" to future generations and accuses the people who
they try to take young people to war.
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9) Eveline wants to leave Dublin with Frank because of her
difficult life.
When she is about to sail she decides not to do it.
Eveline is paralyzed by her past and the promise she made
to her mother to take care of the house. This is why she
stays in Dublin abandoning the idea of a new life Eveline
seeks guidance in the routine habit of prayer. Eveline’s
paralysis within an orbit of repetition leaves her a “helpless
animal,” stripped of human will and emotion. The story
does not suggest that Eveline placidly returns home and
continues her life, but shows her transformation into an
automaton that lacks expression.
10)
11) 1984 is a poem written by orwell, located in oceania
describing a psychological dystopia of totalitarian states
where people's lives are controlled by a figure called "big
brother", the protagonist, winston smith, one who works
for the inner party opposes it to this regime with julia and
a group called Brotherhood but they were captured and
tortured by the psychopolice.
eventually both julia and winstom as a result of
psychological and physical torture change their ideology in
favor of the big brother.